skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Standard agency waterfall process. Definitely shooting for "perfect". The product just launched. It was funded by the client's extremely wealthy family and the upkeep fees should be tiny compared to the upfront cost they paid to the agency, so it should be able to stay afloat for a little while.

The real problem is the weak product idea. The agency wasn't in a position to tell the client their idea was bad because they wanted the money.
Another angle is that HR requires that a public posting be created for N weeks for all new positions, but there's someone they really want to hire internally. So the post is crafted such that only the internal hire meets all of the requirements, and they can just reject everyone else.

I've seen it done. A friend of mine was one such internal transfer, and before that, he helped write the hiring post for converting a contractor to full time.
"Cheating" by taking advantage of repetition is exactly how Bill Gosper's famous "HashLife" implementation handles really huge universes.

Here's my implementation in CoffeeScript, written in the "Williams Style:"

http://recursiveuniver.se
>This is quote possibly the most beautiful blog I have ever seen.

At least on my Chrome on Windows 7 the fonts look horrible. I've had that in other places too, I wonder what's wrong with my setup.
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We judge people who dress to manipulate, whether it's "trust me" or "pay attention to me". The fact that a cheap costume might influence others' decisions is a social bug, and I kind of resent anyone knowingly exploiting it.
Neato.

If you also want to end your sentences with two periods or separate thoughts with two commas, go for it.

Please just don't pretend it is somehow proper or logical. As long as we're clear that you're doing it your own weird way just because... I see no harm. Carry on, two-space warrior! shrugs
They do that to mock Yahoo!'s name, as it thoroughly deserves to be mocked. Same way any story about Facebook will have a sub-title ending in ", bitch" as a reference to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/facebook-ceo-mark-z...
Relative performance is how people who design and use supercomputers define them. Cost is a secondary effect because if you're going to shoot for the limits of what we can do, it's going to be expensive.

The major difficulty with your second list is that expensive computers don't need to be high performance. Consider the computers that go into satellites and spacecraft. They are extremely expensive, but not high performing.
Ben Affleck, le réalisateur d’Argo, se focalise sur Focus
Ryan Gosling et Emma Stone ne sont plus attachés à Focus. Les studios Warner Bros. se tournent vers Ben Affleck, le réalisateur d’Argo, pour jouer dans le film de Glenn Ficarra et John Requa.
My uncle who is a dentist told me i got loads of cavities from gatorade. His rationale aside from the high sugar content was that because I was exercising, my mouth was drying out w/the gatorade residue in it. So the sugars eat away at your teeth faster. So there is that factor to weigh in as well (how your mouth is reacting at the time of the liquid consumption, or post consumption residue).
I'm in my 20s and have never touched a type writer. I use the two space method almost exclusively because that's what I was taught. Sure I mess it up sometimes, but this article does make a fantastic case for why to use it for parsing. If I do mess it up that will show in my parsing, and I'll be able to go back and fix the spacing in the future.
Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page
Too damn right.

Also this chapter coincided with our then president Thabo Mbeki making typically over-academic assertions that HIV does not cuase aids and our then health minister fuckface Tshablala Msimang (she of the stolen liver) telling AIDS sufferers to eat bearoot and garlic.

Evil compounded.

Please forgive my rant. I am a proud South African sickened by the suffering our people have been subjected to.
Three Weeks In, and the iPhone 5 Is Already Dominating the Mobile Web
That's a relatively recent marketing campaign (unless you're 130 years old). When people talk about "razor-and-blades" freebie marketing it refers to the early-20th century razor market:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing#Gillette
Bring more transparency within co-workers using email
That's interesting. So you've built your own HTML to PDF converter? Can you provide an example (a screenshot, maybe) where your version excels against an existing solution?
>Not only is it not a large portion of your keystrokes, but the space bar has your two strongest digits dedicated solely to it! If any fingers are going to wear out from typing, it won’t be your thumbs.

I beg to differ- as someone who DID get RSI-stricken thumbs from typing, even one space occasionally feels too much, thankyouverymuch.
is it just me, or does that article not use two-spaces?
Community is the new society
I have a description, but the about page was too cluttered when I put it in, so I figured if people are finding the game, they probably know what it is. I'm still not sure whether to put it in or not, but that is a valid point for sure.
First ever iOS remote desktop solution is released
What does your degree matter? Millions of dollars over time
Agreed. People seem to be incredibly invested in believing that intelligent people could ever be sexist.

When I've called out people over the years for being sexist or racist, often they don't even realize immediately they'd said something offensive because it usually is subtle rather than overt - off-color jokes, sexualized images or inappropriate topics.
Interested in hearing what people think of Xylitol and its positive effects on saliva pH.
"git add -p" is wonderful for this. In a nutshell, git has line-level granularity for committing, instead of file-level granularity (I know it's technically more complex than that). When you add a file for committing with -p, you interactively choose only the diff hunks you want and leave the others behind for a future commit. Plus you can split the hunks if they aren't fine-grained enough for you.
Just curious -- has anyone here used the AndroidAnnotations library that is included as part of this in a reasonably complex Android application? What was your experience with it like? It seems like an interesting way to avoid having to write a bunch of boilerplate code without any runtime performance implications.
I'm guessing you have a shitty version of Palatino installed, because Palatino is gorgeous: http://i.imgur.com/EXQMj.png
Good point -- fixed.
I this particular case a square stretchable image is everything that is needed. True though if shape is different you are most likely left to do code
Many HNers are understandably bashing this for privacy concerns. However, csr.io addresses a real problem, that generating CSR's is a pain in the neck.

Let me be the first to offer a positive suggestion: csr.io should keep doing exactly the same thing, but on the "results" page where it shows the key and CSR now, also generate and show the equivalent OpenSSL commands for someone to generate a key on their own machine. These commands should be able to be blindly copy/pasted into any Mac/Linux command prompt where OpenSSL is installed.
Show HN: I made a Catch-Phrase-Like word guessing game for Android, WordLord
You state yourself very confidently. Care to back it up with citations?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2%80%93female_income_disp... many studies have found that there is a persistent gap that remains, even when you control for education level, hours worked, experience, etc.

It is unclear whose fault this gap is. For instance when people get a job offer, men are more likely to try to negotiate than women. That fact can cause significant wage discrimination at a company that is not trying to discriminate at all.
I'm really disappointed you decided to use phrases like "Laura The Troll."

It's funny. Those who've disagreed with Laura have come down to name calling and such.

Faruk's a good guy. But because he worked for Apple means nothing. Absolutely squat. If you judge people's worth on who they've worked for, then that's worrying. It's not who you've worked for - it's what you've done (Modernizr was a good link in this.) I know many Googler's, Appler's who spend a lot of time writing minor code for example.

But how does working for Apple and writing Modenizr qualify him to speak about sexism? That's got nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Laura's not the only person who's expressed this view. Many people in the comemnts have agreed (and disagreed)

I think it doesn't say volumes about the sexist attitudes. It says volumes that people agree with her more. I'm sorry it doesn't fit in your belief box, but that doesn't make it trolling, nor does it make it wrong.
Definitely agreed with the above comment. Telling a story about what the game actually is is more powerful than inputting a list of facts.
I follow a beekeeping forum, and just yesterday there was a thread about some people noticing they had been on for 10+ years. These are definitely not the young hacker crowd. That predates myspace and is literally just an example that came up yesterday, I'm sure I can find older forums.

And are you really saying that before web forums, all the way back in the very beginning of the web people weren't being social on the web by sharing links through email? Remember, email is the true killer app of the internet, the web is just a nice-to-have. :)
How to sell Windows 8 in Japan
Physics.js - A two-dimensional port of the popular Traer Physics Library
I play with them often. It serves a purpose, and in that sense, it helps you define some part of your reality. Anti-gliders are the fun :D
Lil at the amazing 4g technology of the iphone. Thats like its best new feature... i had that on my old galaxy s2 even hahaha. Apples markketting is so much better than their products
unless you use Chrome on Windows http://i.imgur.com/aoPOh.jpg
That's like saying "I work as a nurse in a hospital in the 1950s". Sure, you may see some sexism second hand, but if you're a female doctor in the same position, it's a totally different experience.

The primary thing I didn't like about the author's article was that her criticism of the original article (which were totally valid, by the way) kind of concluded with the impression (given by her anecdotal experience) that "sexism isn't as bad as it's made out to be, look, I haven't seen any."

The truth is it is there, and it can be pretty bad in some cases, although these scare articles by the author she was criticizing isn't really giving any meaningful advice on how to do deal with it.

Interesting she works in a big shop... coincides with my experiences that larger orgs tend to be more comfortable/friendly to women.
It doesn't on display, which is part of his point; allegedly the source two-spaces.
Trying to think of specific examples of this - I guess Steve Jobs is the obvious/most prominent choice here (although he was already CEO). Any others?
IAMA Google Streetview Car Driver
Friend tells me the girls' names sound like "seven" and "eight" and they both use a kanji that also means "window." BAD PUNS.
I'm on Linux, whatever that blog falls back to is dreadful.
Since there was a similar post here today, here goes:

WordLord was my project for a Smartphone Development course at my university. I ended up polishing the application enough for my liking and actually releasing the game on Google Play. I wrote blog posts for each week of development that outline some of the decisions I made while working on the project. The first post is here: http://aleakymemory.blogspot.com/2012/05/smartphone-developm...

The link is to the demo version of the game. There is also a full version ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.cmu.sv.bbo... ), which allows users to add their own words by simply placing a text file in a specific folder on their Android device.
Another vote for Google App Engine.
Easiest to set up that I've found with a free tier.
I was looking at AppFog too but never really got started.

Anyone want to explain why iamgopal's post got marked as link - dead?
It's a small web service that wraps around a Java library named Flying Saucer, so there isn't anything to look at really.

Flying Saucer excels against the alternatives I looked at in a few ways. First, Pandoc's built in PDF writer uses a LaTeX intermediary which doesn't support anything that web writers have come to expect. Second, the other tools were webkit based which variously didn't support the page media spec, didn't support embedding fonts, or both. Others were custom one off of desktop tools that wouldn't work how I need for Docverter.
Isn't all management's job to not allow bad ideas out the door?

How would this person's role differ from all other managements (maybe outside marketing)?
> We use a space to separate 2 words and a full stop (etc.) is used to indicate the end of a sentence.

So your sentence above ends just after the characters e-t-c, right?

Or do we use a period for other things than just ending sentences?
Yeah, I realized as I was typing it out that there must be "cheating" going on. After all, 99% of computer science is finding ways to "cheat".
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Besides being bad for your teeth it's a nightmare on your body. That insulin dump from the onslaught of sugar will make you much more likely to develop diabetes, and some studies have shown a long-term metabolic effect where your body prefers sugars for energy instead of fats. That and the empty calories will lop-side your diet and make it harder to lose weight or gain muscle.

There are lots of ways you can drink something tasty and not have such a huge impact on your body. Sometimes i'll buy a two-liter of green tea ginger ale or cranberry juice, and make a 50/50 or 25/75 mix of the drink and tap water.

You can also just cold-brew tea or coffee and mix in a little sweetener or other flavor to change it up. It's cheaper than soda and (after you stop drinking soda every day) tastes much better because you're not getting hit over the head with truckloads of sugars. Ask a European about how sweet all our foods and drinks are.
The major difference is Knappsack is not limited to beta testing and is not limited to mobile apps. Knappsack supports those use cases well but it also works great for controlled distribution of production apps.
Chemistry comes to mind. Actually, all fields of the natural sciences seem to have an extent of people playing around with X when they were just children and then somehow magically going on to doing it after high school as well.

Actually, I would go so far as saying every profession with a high ratio of very passionate people and low-ish barrier to entry will exhibit something like this.

Sports are a magnificent example.
What are your thoughts on the rashness of publishing her post, rather than attempting (more than just Twitter) to improve the article. What we could have had is a truly great (and revised) article on the top of HN rather than this troll inducing post and discussion?
Thanks, that's exactly the sort of thing I had in mind! Your 3d printer uC looks pretty cool too!
> "increases in masculine wording were sufficient to decrease women's job appeal ratings and their anticipated belongingness in specific occupations"

> People in Silicon Valley are dicks

> Hire those bothered by suck

> [random butt statue]
File Management, the modern way
markmm, your account was hellbanned 7 days ago.

moron, your account was hellbanned 72 days ago.

lean, your account was hellbanned 345 days ago.
Google Drive - I hate to be too "mainstream", but we've been using Google Drive to share docs between our small team and it works great. Collaboration on Google Docs is native and simple, plus we're able to keep our Office docs alongside without trouble.
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That's basically how the media report every little doubt in global warming research.
I would love to use that "one sentence per line" approach, but I can't get lines to soft-wrap in a sane way in Vim.
The closest I got was this solution: http://contsys.tumblr.com/post/491802835/vim-soft-word-wrap

But it wraps at the full width of my terminal (80-some characters per visual line), which is too long.
And it won't display a partial line at the bottom of the screen.
That is, if something wraps to 3 visual lines, but starts on the second row from the bottom,
instead of displaying the first 2 visual lines,
it shows two '@'s.

This prevents me from using the one-sentence-per-line approach nicely.
Any Vim warriors know a solution?
why is it stupid? it seems quite coherent: he's using monospace in the editor and wants the clarity; the processing for presentation strips it out so it's not present where it's not needed. that seems reasonable, consistent, and sensible.
I two space to ensure that each sentence is given clean separation between the previous and next sentences.
"Isn’t social research by its nature normally based on anecdotal evidence?"

No. That's the very antithesis of what social research is, by its nature.
Redis_failover 1.0 Released - Distributed monitoring, failover strategies, more
redis_failover is a full failover solution for redis. As of v1.0, it now supports distributed monitoring among the Node Managers! Previously, the Node Managers were only used as a means of redundancy in case a particular node manager crashed. Starting with version 1.0 of redis_failover, the Node Managers will all periodically report their health report/snapshots. The primary Node Manager will utilize a configurable "node strategy" to determine if a particular node is available or unavailable.<p>redis_failover now supports a configurable "failover strategy" that's consulted when performing a failover. Currently, a single strategy is provided that takes into account the average latency of the last health check to the redis server.
For what it's worth, I think the second paragraph does a good job setting up what the product is. But agreed, the first sentence (while still humorous) is definitely a mouthful.
For perspective, they found it doesn't violate the SCA, but it may still violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Anyway, their reading of the law lends itself to a requirement to maintain (at least) two copies of a message (one the primary, and others the backups). If there is only one "copy" then it cannot be a backup.
That seems like a really cool game. Now where's the link to check it out myself?
"government ... stoked": yes, I agree. It's a shame.

I think Panetta partly wants money, but even more, wants laws changed so that privately-operated infrastructure has to have certain security provisions. His agency can't compel it without a law.

History has shown that market forces are not always sufficient to guard against catastrophic events.
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Peer pressure got to me. Added a description on the main page. Thanks for the advice.
You make a pretty good point, but not just gmail. Pretty much all -mail providers use https when users access their web interface.
Your client just wants their business problem solved. If they are a reasonable client, unless they made it very clear to you up front, they do not want to be in the business of designing, implementing, testing, distributing, supporting, and maintaining supply chain management applications.

They want order management capabilities they don't have. They want to get those capabilities without hiring 1-3 more full-time people, each at a fully loaded cost of between $120-250k, all of them with ramp-up time and each with a 33+% chance of not working out.

Solve their business problem, collect your rate, and feel comfortable that you've generated a win-win. Get your contracts reviewed by a lawyer (you should keep a lawyer on hot standby for contract review all the time) and make sure that you retain IP. There are lots of different structures that accomplish that.

It is a good thing that after completing this engagement, you will be well positioned to offer this service to a next client, and a next, and even "all" the clients at scale using a SaaS offering. It's what makes you a valuable consultant. You should not be entertaining the idea of giving your services away simply to capture the side effect of getting better at delivering supply chain products afterwards.

Incidentally: something that I am continuously learning the hard way, even as I tell myself every damn time that I know this, but then proceed to make exactly the same mistake again and again: free has a negative signaling value in consulting. Don't do free. Free is terrible. It scares buyers, generates more uncertainty than it dispels, and it sets you up to fail.

By all means, help people out gratis, do favors, be accessible. But when your client needs something done, put a price tag on it or pass the work up.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/10/still-un... mentions "Neptune's Brood", space-opera set 5k years after "Saturn's Children" but it sounds like it may not actually be coming out until next year, along with three volumes of Merchant Princes (the existing books, in omnibus editions with minor changes) and maybe a UK edition of "The rapture of the nerds".
If you do some googling, it's commonly accepted that both sugar and acid are bad for your teeth, with plenty of justification. Some of the reasons are even covered in the article.

You're correct in that their classification of "worst" only applies if sugar and acidity are the most important factors. But they're clearly a large factor in tooth decay, so measuring the contents of various liquids and comparing them to each other is instructive.
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The Borderlands 2 Gun Discarders Club
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Okay, so consistency question.

A male friend of mine recently testified before a parliamentary committee on computer security. He wore a suit, as one might expect. If he hadn't dressed formally, the committee wouldn't have trusted him, even if he'd said exactly the same things (which consisted of being highly critical of a proposed government technology policy).

A female software developer friend of mine has gone home after work and changed into a less formal outfit before going to a developer event in order so that people don't assume that she is a marketing or sales person or just there to accompany her boyfriend.

Both of these are uses of dress to influence other people's decisions and attitudes. Are either one, or both of them, worthy of the resentment you describe? And why do we pick, say, dress out as something where manipulation for social ends is bad but, say, typography isn't? If someone is preparing a resume for a job and uses an inappropriate font (Comic Sans, maybe), I'll tell him not to do so. But if he wears a tie during the interview, is he trying to emotionally manipulate people?
Looks great to me on Ubuntu—very similar to the screenshot two levels up, only slightly differently spaced.
3D Printer DRM Patent To Stop People Downloading a Car
Generalized: There's no way to know which Turing Complete substrate we are "truly" running on. We can examine the parameters of our system and hypothesize which rules are the most parsimonious to produce the system we live in in the Occam's Razor sense, but we can't prove it.
You cannot do it in drive-by format like you can with a GET. It's passive and can be posted almost anywhere, message boards, email, Facebook.
Wow, I never realized Diet Coke was less acidic than Diet Dr Pepper.
I see something about a circle that contains the eigenvectors of a matrix. How does that apply here?
Oh come on, he clearly means that the diglyph ". " is a sentence end.
> A medic, while they might have played doctor, do not really learn any of the basic skills until hitting university education.

The medics I know personally:

* Volunteered in ER in high school -> Doctor

* EMT and high-hours babysitting in college -> Children's Therapist

Also, sports profession :-)
Holman's slides are always top notch.